messageformat

About

Features

  • Handles arbitrary nesting of pluralization and select rules
  • Supports all ~466 languages included in the Unicode CLDR
  • Works on the server and the client
  • Remarkably useful even for single-language use
  • Speed & efficiency: Can pre-compile messages to JavaScript code
    • Great for speed: message formatting is just string concatenation
  • Compatible with other MessageFormat implementations
  • Extendable with custom formatting functions
  • Very whitespace tolerant
  • Supports Unicode, including RTL and mixed LTR/RTL strings

License

You may use this software under the MIT License:

Copyright 2012-2018 Alex Sexton, Eemeli Aro, and Contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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Authors

Credits

Thanks to:

  • Vincit - Eemeli's current employer - for letting him do cool stuff like this.
  • Bazaarvoice - Alex's previous employer - for letting him do cool stuff like this.
  • Google has an implementation that is similar in Google Closure, the code has been vetted against many of their tests.
  • Norbert Lindenberg for showing Alex how good it can be.